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Der Zauberer. Fragmente zu einem Roman

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Im Oktober 1921, noch während der Niederschrift des Siddhartha, plante Hesse, einen märchenhaften Roman mit dem Titel "Aus dem Leben eines Zauberers" zu schreiben. Dieses Projekt wurde nie zu Ende geführt. Erhalten geblieben davon ist nur die Handschrift der Einleitung unter dem Titel Der Zauberer. Erfundene und autobiographische Elemente durchdringen sich darin auf eine Weise, dass es Hesse im Verlauf der Reinschrift wünschenswert erschien, beides voneinander zu trennen. So entstand 1923 einerseits das Märchen "Kindheit des Zauberers", andererseits der "Kurzgefaßte Lebenslauf", den er erstmals im Dezember 1924 anlässlich einer Lesung in der Stuttgarter Liederhalle öffentlich vorgetragen hat. Unser Band enthält alle drei Versionen dieses Stoffes und ermöglicht somit einen Einblick in Hermann Hesses Werkstatt.

118 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

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Hermann Hesse

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Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.

Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game , which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society.

In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world; worldwide fame only came later. Young Germans desiring a different and more "natural" way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind , first great novel of Hesse.

Throughout Germany, people named many schools. In 1964, people founded the Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis, awarded biennially, alternately to a German-language literary journal or to the translator of work of Hesse to a foreign language. The city of Karlsruhe, Germany, also associates a Hermann Hesse prize.

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